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Parag
Parag

Reputation: 41

Adding folder name as a prefix to the file's name

I am creating files dynamically in different folders, like so:

curr_dir = "/a/b/c"
filename = os.path.join(curr_dir, 'file.text')

Which gives me:

"/a/b/c/file.text"

But because I am creating files with the same name in many folders, I want to distinguish them by adding the folder's name as a prefix, to get:

"a/b/c/c_file.text"

How can I get that?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1622

Answers (2)

Ritesh
Ritesh

Reputation: 25

texfile = os.path.join(curr_dir, 'all_files.tex')

only concatenates the current directory path to your filename.

You should have something like:

texfile = os.path.join(curr_dir, os.path.basename(curr_dir)+'_all_files.tex')

Upvotes: 1

abhilb
abhilb

Reputation: 5757

Try the pathlib package instead:

>>> from pathlib import Path
>>> Path()
WindowsPath('.')

>>> Path().absolute()
WindowsPath('C:/Users/p00200284/test')

>>> Path().absolute().parent
WindowsPath('C:/Users/p00200284')

>>> Path().absolute().parent / "all_files.tex"
WindowsPath('C:/Users/p00200284/all_files.tex')

>>> str(Path().absolute().parent / "all_files.tex")
'C:\\Users\\p00200284\\all_files.tex'

>>> Path().absolute().parent.name
'p00200284'

>>> f"{Path().absolute().parent.name}_all_files.tex"
'p00200284_all_files.tex'

>>> parent_dir = Path().absolute().parent
>>> parent_dir / f"{Path().absolute().parent.name}_all_files.tex"
WindowsPath('C:/Users/p00200284/p00200284_all_files.tex')

Upvotes: 1

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